PopeWatch: Commie Crucifix

In a huge warehouse at the Vatican.  Two Monsignors, Argentum and Aurum, are  conducting an inventory and valuation of gifts given to Pope Francis:

Aurum:  How are we going to value this?

Argentum:  Come on if we could value that collection of silk screen painted Elvi worshipping Christ sent to the Pope by that order of nuns in Tennessee, we can value anything.

Aurum:  Well, why do we have to do it?  Just being a gift to the Pope enhances the value of all this crap beyond the 40 Euro value set by the Pope.

Argentum:  Sighs.  You are a babe in the woods.  First, we do it because the Pope told us to do it.  Second, since he is banning gifts of more than 40 Euros value to all Vatican employees he wants to lead by example and show what a sacrifice he is making.

Aurum:  Snorts.  As if he will miss any of this junk!  Sighs.  Alright back to the task at hand.  How are we going to value the Commie Crucifix?

Argentum:  Well it was given to the Pope by a head of state.

Aurum:  Former head of state.  Look, the best we can say about this blasphemous piece of junk is that it is Commie Kitsch.  What sort of market is there in that?

Argentum:  Believe it or not there is a market in the former satellite states of symbols of the fallen regimes.

Aurum:  They didn’t have to live under them. I am tired of this and we still have a huge amount of work ahead of us.  Forty-one Euros.

Argentum:  Forty one Euros?  We valued the silk screen painted Elvi worshipping Christ at 200 Euros.

Aurum:  The market is perpetually hot for King memorabilia.  Split the difference?  One hundred Euros?

Argentum:  Done!  Now on to the three gaucho figurines given by the President of Uruguay!

Aurum:  Groans.